Cornelis Tobias Bekker
25 May 1855 – 4 March 1903 · Bekker line
Names
- Given
- Cornelius Tobias
- Surname
- Bekker
The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.
Immediate family
- Married
- Christina Wilhelmina Venter
- Children
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- 1878Anna Johanna Jacomina Bekker
- 1880Maria Magdalena Bekker
- 1881Christina Wilhelmina Bekker
- 1884~Johannes Stephanus Bekker
- 1886~Johanna Jacomina Bekker
- 1888~Ignasina Johanna Maria Bekker
- 1890~Martha Jacoba Bekker
- 1892~Hester Elizabeth Bekker
- 1894~Jan Adriaan Bekker
- 1896~Petronella Cornelia Bekker
- 1897~Cornelis Tobias Bekker
A life in the record
- 25 May 1855 born Born
- 1903 buried Buried, Prince Albert NG Kerk cemetery
- 4 March 1903 died Died
Others of the same name
Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.
What we don't know
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 1 other person in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: spouse of Christina Wilhelmina VenterL. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.
These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.
Elders
FamilySearch profile KHL3-MVX